Georgia Class of 2027: Fall Update
September 8, 2025
Prep Baseball Georgia
Staff
With the summer in the rearview mirror and fall events beginning to get underway, we find ourselves in the midst of the most important ranking update of the year.
Over the next couple of weeks, we will be rolling out some of our most in-depth updates in recent time across the 2026, 2027 and 2028 classes. Top 10s with new write-ups, Biggest Movers, Positional breakdowns, Top Uncommitted, Upcoming spring breakouts, and more.
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Schedule
Today: Top 10, Top 350 release
Tomorrow: Biggest Movers, Breakout Candidates
Wednesday: Positional Rankings
Thursday: Positional Rankings
Friday: Positional Rankings
The Top 10
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Caden Dawson OF / Blessed Trinity Catholic High School, GA / 2027
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CJ Wall C / OF / Georgia Premier Academy, GA / 2027
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The Breakdown
The Case for #1
With 2025 Future Gamers and high-level talent all throughout this Top 10, the first four names at the top have separated themselves a bit and all give themselves a case for being the top player in the state. There’s a real argument you can look at this group as 1A through 1D.
Coming in at #1 for the first time is RHP/OF Harry “Chubb” Jones Jr., whose 2025 campaign has been one of the loudest in the country. Long and lean at 6-foot-2, 180-pounds, Jones is an effortless mover on the mound with great flexibility in the lower half matched with superb arm speed in a lower three-quarters slot. Fastball is as explosive as you’ll find in the class, running it up to 97 in multiple looks, and sitting 93-95 since February with consistent arm-side run to miss bats in-zone. Slider is firm with feel to spin (2700 RPM) and more to come at 80-83, showing hard horizontal movement and feel to manipulate that points to potential above-average offering long-term. Will flash a curveball and changeup, but the splitter at 82-84 is the true third pitch flashes plus at times with late tumble and ability to kill spin that misses bats regularly. It’s an advanced mix that’s only growing in feel and backed by highest-level arm talent and projection, the type of pitching profile you build in a lab. Let’s not forget, “Chubb” offers 6.3 speed with positional flexibility with the glove and has shown light-tower power at times as well to only take this significant talent to another level. We’re still a couple years away, but this is a profile that rarely finds its way to campus.
You’ll be hard pressed to find a better defensive makeup than what C Caden Borcherding offers with the bat now starting to catch up in a real hurry, and that’s a scary sight to behold. Lean 6-foot-1, 180-pounds with strength throughout and ability to maintain high-level athleticism long-term. Bat-to-ball skills have always shown up for Borcherding with great hands in an on-plane path that keeps the barrel in-zone forever but the bat speed and swing decisions took a big step forward this spring/summer. Found hard-hit line-drives at will and started showing some pull-side carry as well that flashed some quality raw power. The aforementioned defensive profile for Borcherding is the definition of polish. Shows flexibility in the crouch with excellent blocking/receiving while handing high-level arms from day one of his freshman year. Arm strength is above-average and shows accuracy to all bags with confidence to back pick regularly, keeping base runners off balance at all times. It’s the type of catching profile that can impact the game on both sides at a high-level, and that value is hard to find.
The hit/power combo for two-time Future Game OF Caden Dawson has been the gold standard in Georgia’s 2027 class from day one and that remains true today.
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